The new release takes full advantage of the powerful new Sun Ray 3 Series Clients to reduce server workloads and provide a highly secure virtual desktop solution, while continuing to support a variety of other client devices.

Sun Ray Software is part of Oracle’s complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization portfolio, allowing customers to efficiently and easily virtualize and manage their full software and hardware stack, from applications to disk.

Through a single infrastructure, Sun Ray Software offers customers enhanced flexibility and investment protection by providing broad support for operating environments including Microsoft Windows, Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris desktops, as well as interoperability with other virtualization platforms and brokers.

Audio input support for Windows – allows audio input devices, such as microphones and headsets, to be used with a variety of Windows virtual desktops.

Enhanced network security – enables users to connect to their remote desktop sessions using standard network-level security protocols such as TLS/SSL and Network Level Authentication using CredSSP. These options increase security by completing the user authentication step before a full session connection is established.

Firmware updates – includes updated firmware for all Sun Ray 3 Series Clients.

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"Oracle continues to enhance its desktop virtualization portfolio and deliver new and improved capabilities that provide customers a highly secure, low cost, and easy to use remote desktop experience,” said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle’s senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization Engineering. “The Sun Ray Software 5.1 release delivers on Oracle’s commitment to rapidly advancing our desktop virtualization products. We continue to actively invest significant resources in Sun Ray and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure products and work with customers to make it easier for them to deploy and manage virtual infrastructures with the best remote multimedia options.”

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